Walter Bergmann

Biography

Trademarks, books, posters, publicity. Born 25 February 1904 in Cologne. First studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Offenbach a.M.: a teacher was Rudolf Koch. 1925-30: studied at the Vereinigte Staatschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst, Berlin, where one of his teachers was E.R. Weiss. 1933-40: freelance work, particularly for the publisher Scherl. Also designed carpets, murals, illustrated children’s books for the publisher Atlantis. Military service, followed by internment as prisoner-of-war. From 1946: freelance. From 1950: taught drawing at the Berlin Hochschule für Bildenden Künste. Died 1965 in Berlin.

Writings about

  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Walther Bergmann, Düsseldorf’, Gg, Aug. 1951, pp. 54-7
  • Franz Hermann Wills, ‘Berlin propagandises the poster’, Graphis 36, 1951, pp. 258-65
  • F.H. Wills, ‘Berliner Woche der Werbung für die Wrbung’, Graphik 5, 1952, pp. 310-12 (esp. pp. 311a, 311b)
  • F.H. Wills, ‘Professor Walter Bergmann, Berlin’, Gg, Nov. 1952, pp. 34-7
  • F.H. Wills, ‘Graphik aus Berlin/Graphik für Berlin’, Graphik, 1953, pp. 638-49, esp. p. 649
  • brief biography, Gg, March 1954, p. 53
  • Gerda Finsterer-Stuber, Marken und Signete, Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1957
  • Carl Heussner, ‘Through the year with the mails’ (Federal Postal Services calendar), Gg, April 1958, pp. 2-7
  • E. Hölscher, ‘German posters 1959/60’, Gg, Aug. 1960, pp. 10-19
  • E. Hölscher, ‘The best German posters of 1963/4’, Gg, Aug. 1964, pp. 2-17
  • AKL, 1994.